Michael Barnes
The Folded Sky, is the third in Bears White Space space opera, following Ancestral Night and Machine. It takes place roughly in the same time period as Machine, thus some time after Ancestral Night (the actual Ancestral Night ship makes a brief cameo in the novel). If you will recall, these novels revolve around a spacefaring community of aliens, humans among them. If you enjoyed those books this one has everything those have and is just as enjoyable.
"Sunya is a researcher traveling to the edge of the galaxy. She studies information and the collection and interpretation of information, and a cache of ancient alien information is the biggest known. But her arrival there is not easy. Pirates are blockading the system. The star that the cache is orbiting, as well as the space station for the researchers, is probably going to go supernova any time now. And then there are the attempted murders. And just what are those mysterious things Sunya is seeing in the corner of her vision?" - Paul Weimer at Nerds of a Feather
You don't need to have read those two books to enjoy Folded Sky but seriously why wouldn't you they are great. Its a great story a ancient mystery, space pirates, AIs of various levels of snark and did I mention cats.
The Folded Sky, is the third in Bears White Space space opera, following Ancestral Night and Machine. It takes place roughly in the same time period as Machine, thus some time after Ancestral Night (the actual Ancestral Night ship makes a brief cameo in the novel). If you will recall, these novels revolve around a spacefaring community of aliens, humans among them. If you enjoyed those books this one has everything those have and is just as enjoyable.
"Sunya is a researcher traveling to the edge of the galaxy. She studies information and the collection and interpretation of information, and a cache of ancient alien information is the biggest known. But her arrival there is not easy. Pirates are blockading the system. The star that the cache is orbiting, as well as the space station for the researchers, is probably going to go supernova any time now. And then there are the attempted murders. And just what are those mysterious things Sunya is seeing in the corner of her vision?" - Paul Weimer at Nerds of a Feather
You don't need to have read those two books to enjoy Folded Sky but seriously why wouldn't you they are great. Its a great story a ancient mystery, space pirates, AIs of various levels of snark and did I mention cats.